What is this ‘populism’?

14 Dec '17

6.30 - 8.30 pm

Is there a common thread in the political tendencies in different parts of the world today (Trump, Brexit, Modi, Erdogan, Le Pen...) that are being described by the term ‘populism’? What is meant by ‘populism’? What are the issues at stake and what are the underlying causes? In his lecture Akeel Bilgrami will try and address these questions and provide a social, political, and economic diagnosis of contemporary populism, while also exploringing its wider philosophical significance.

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Akeel Bilgrami

Dr. Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Chair in Philosophy at Columbia University, faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought and Director, South Asia Institute, Columbia University. Bilgrami has two relatively independent sets of intellectual interests - in the Philosophy of Mind and Language, and in issues of Political Philosophy and Moral Psychology especially as they surface in politics, history, and culture. His other publications include 'Belief and Meaning', ‘Self Knowledge and Resentment', and ‘Politics and The Moral Psychology of Identity’.